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Secondhand & Out of Print

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours 2018/19

Wildy’s will have slightly different Opening Hours for 2018/19. The Lincoln’s Inn branch will close from Saturday 22nd December until Thursday 3rd January. Our Fleet Street branch will close from Friday 21st December until Wednesday 2nd January.

All Online book orders taken during the time we are closed will be processed at Lincoln’s Inn once we re-open on January 3rd. Credit Cards will NOT be charged until the order is ready to dispatch. .
During the time we are closed UK eBook orders will be processed automatically, Sweet & Maxwell and LexisNexis titles excepted and they, along with any non-UK eBook orders placed after 3pm on the 22nd December will not be processed until the 3rd January.

The exploration of penal censure in this book is inspired by the fortieth anniversary in 2016 of the publication of Andreas von Hirsch’s Doing Justice, which opened up a fresh set of issues in theorisation about punishment that eventually led von Hirsch to ground his proposed model of desert-based sentencing on the notion of penal censure.

Von Hirsch’s work thus provides an obvious starting-point for an exploration of the importance of censure for the justification of punishment, both within von Hirsch’s theory of just deserts and from the perspectives of other theoretical approaches. It also provides an opportunity for engaging with censure more broadly from philosophical, sociological-anthropological and individual-psychological perspectives.

The essays in this collection map the conceptual territory of censure from these different perspectives, address issues for desert theory that arise from fuller understandings of censure, and consider afresh the role of censure within the jurisprudence of punishment. They show that analyses of censure from different vantage points can significantly enrich punishment theory, not least by providing a conceptual basis for perceiving common ground between and thus connecting different strands of penal theory.